Saturday, August 27, 2016

2016 VMA Winner Predictions

Video of the Year
Adele — "Hello"

Should win: “Formation”
Will win: “Sorry”

Best Male Video

Should win: “Hotline Bling”
Will win: “Hotline Bling”


Best Female Video
Adele — "Hello"
Rihanna (featuring Drake) — "Work"

Should win: “Hold Up”
Will win: “Work”

Best New Artist

Should win: DNCE
Will win: DNCE


Best Pop Video
Adele — "Hello"

Should win: “Sorry”
Will win: “Sorry”


Best Collaboration Video
Beyoncé (featuring Kendrick Lamar) — "Freedom"
Rihanna (featuring Drake) — "Work"

Should win: “Work”
Will win: “Work”

Breakthrough Long Form Video

Should win: Lemonade
Will win: Lemonade

Best Direction
Adele — "Hello" (Director: Xavier Dolan)
David Bowie — "Lazarus" (Director: Johan Renck)
Coldplay — "Up&Up" (Directors: Vania Heymann and Gal Muggia)
Tame Impala — "The Less I Know the Better" (Director: Canada)

Should win: “Lazarus”
Will win: “Formation”

Best Choreography
Beyoncé — "Formation" (Choreographers: Chris Grant, JaQuel Knight and Dana Foglia)
Beyoncé — "Sorry" (Choreographers: Chris Grant, JaQuel Knight, Dana Foglia, Anthony Burrell & Beyoncé Knowles Carter)
Missy Elliott (featuring Pharrell) — "WTF (Where They From)" (Choreographer: Hi-Hat)
FKA TwigsM3LL155X (Choreographer: Aaron Sillis, Benjamin Milan, Kenrick Sandy and FKA Twigs)
Florence + The Machine — "Delilah" (Choreographer: Holly Blakey)

Should win: “Formation”
Will win: “Formation”

Best Visual Effects
Adele — "Send My Love (To Your New Lover)" (Visual Effects: Jonathan Box and MPC)
Coldplay — "Up&Up" (Visual Effects: Vania Heymann and GloriaFX)
FKA TwigsM3LL155X (Visual Effects: Lewis Saunders and Jihoon Yoo)
The Weeknd — "Can't Feel My Face" (Visual Effects: Louis Mackall and T.J. Burke)
Zayn — "Pillowtalk" (Visual Effects: David Smith)

Should win: “Pillowtalk”
Will win: “Send My Love (To Your New Lover)”

Best Art Direction
Adele — "Hello" (Art Director: Colombe Raby)
Beyoncé — "Hold Up" (Art Director: Jason Hougaard)
David Bowie — "Blackstar" (Art Director: Jan Houllevigue)
Drake — "Hotline Bling" (Art Director: Jeremy MacFarlane)
Fergie — "M.I.L.F. $" (Art Director: Alexander Delgado)

Should win: “Hotline Bling”
Will win: “Hotline Bling”


Best Editing
Adele — "Hello" (Editor: Xavier Dolan)
Beyoncé — "Formation" (Editor: Jeff Selis)
Fergie — "M.I.L.F. $" (Editor: Vinnie Hobbs)

Should win: “Into You”
Will win: “Formation”

Best Cinematography
Adele — "Hello" (Director of Photography: André Turpin)
Alesso — "I Wanna Know" (Director of Photography: Corey Jennings)
Beyoncé — "Formation" (Director of Photography: Malik Sayeed)
David Bowie — "Lazarus" (Director of Photography: Crille Forsberg)
Ariana Grande — "Into You" (Director of Photography: Paul Laufer)

Should win: “Into You”
Will win: “Hello”

Song of Summer
The Chainsmokers (featuring Halsey) — "Closer"
Drake (featuring Kyla and Wizkid) — "One Dance"
Nick Jonas (featuring Ty Dolla Sign) — "Bacon"
Major Lazer (featuring Justin Bieber and ) — "Cold Water"

Should win: “Can’t Stop the Feeling!”

Will win: “Cold Water”

Friday, May 13, 2016

"Ain't Your Mama" Music Video Review

Time for another installment of Vinny Views!
This week I'm reviewing my queen's new music video "Ain't Your Mama".


Beyoncé Album Ranking

I'm so excited to introduce my new YouTube channel...
New videos are posted every Friday. Stay tuned and subscribe!

The first episode that was posted last week is all about ranking Beyoncé's albums.

Enjoy!

Monday, February 15, 2016

2016 Grammy Review

It's time to review the night of music. Lots of highs, a pain-inducing low (ADELE, it' not your fault), and just a lot of great moments. Here's my sassy-ass wrap-up:

Way to NOT save the glitter until the end Taylor Swift.

Anywhere I see LL Cool J, all I picture is my 5-year-old self feeling naughty for watching this...

Nice to see you and those arms Sam Hunt

Talk about powerful with Ellie Goulding & Andra Day in perfect harmony.

Hello Demi Lovato! (Skip to 1:40)

Camera cuts to Taylor Swift singing along have been replaced with ADELE and we’re ok with that.

Pentatonix & Stevie Wonder singing Earth, Wind, & Fire? Yes gawd!

You can’t read braille!

Tori Kelly has pretty much played at every award show in the last year.

Ok y'all, I'm finally on board.

So will people be boycotting the Grammy's because of Kendrick's kick-ass performance?

Bless you Adele. You could see the frustration in her face. Poor thing.

Happy for Taylor, but do you remember when she thought Red won instead of Random Access Memories?

She walks up to the stage by herself, she don't need no damn introduction!